The Greek people, courageous as ever, voted their conscience, voted for their national dignity and rejected the “diktat” of the Financial Eurocrats. The left-wing Government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inherited a Greece that had been ruled for...

Escalating inequality is the work of a global elite that will resist every challenge to its vested interests The Guardian 22 January 2015 Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images The president of the World Bank yesterday urged the international community to...

Ramos-Horta co-chairs Asia “Regional Consultation on Peace Operations”. In Dhaka, Bangladesh Former President José Ramos-Horta departed Dili on Saturday for a long, literally around the globe tour canvassing opinion and support for UN Peace Operations...

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon “The world is changing and UN peace operations must change with it if they are to remain an indispensable and effective tool in promoting international peace and security. That is why I am announcing today the establishment of a...

Speech by H. E. José Ramos-Horta, Former President of Timor-Leste (2007-2012) Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1996) At the College of Defense Studies (CDS) – National Defense University (NDU) Beijing, 17th October 2014 Ladies and gentlemen, Commandant of CDS...

East Timor’s former president Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia would never have secured a seat on the United Nations Security Council had claims that it spied on its neighbours been known. Australia is accused of bugging an East Timorese cabinet room in 2004 so...